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[laminae]

Uh, I'm probs fighting some donked up monster and can't come to the phone. Leave a message.

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[droptheious]

[It's super concerning and Varian hates to admit it but that was his first reaction, too. He and Fern really are an awful lot alike sometimes, as different as they can be. He raises his hands.]

Yeah, I- I thought about that, but I talked to. Elliot about it. I don't know what he's planning, but he suggested we take Snow out for the evening- dinner and a movie, maybe? You know...away from her house. So it can be- be dealt with.

[laminae]

Elliot? [Give him a second - ] The music teacher? [He has no idea what a music teacher could do here, and he looks thoughtful.

Maaaybe a tiny bit huffy. Dinner and a movie sounds so lame compared to just killing her.]

We're not gonna take care of this tranch? Then who is?

[droptheious]

Yeah, that's him. I- he seemed to have a good idea of how to handle this.

[He'd like to have gotten the job done himself, but...]

I don't know what he's going to do. I think he wants us to know as little as possible so we have plausible deniability. Also so we can give Snow an alibi. Because... well, the last thing we need is her getting in trouble for this.

[laminae]

Plausible deniability?

[That's a mouthful Fern has never heard about before. This is a level of thought he's never had to deal with before when it comes to dealing with a bad guy, honestly. He's never thought about anything beyond 'kill the person he wants to kill.']

Well... I guess giving her an alibi's good, so people don't think she did anything bad. She doesn't deserve that kinda hassle, she's not like - [Well.] - like us.

[droptheious]

Yeah- it means that if someone like...the guard or- I guess the police here - shows up asking questions, we genuinely have no idea what's going on. And there's no evidence pointing to us. Or...Snow, in this case, too.

[Varian doesn't especially want to go to prison again anytime soon, but he wants Fern and Snow to end up there even less. ]

Exactly. [Because neither he nor Fern has the best track record here. But Snow-] She- she needs to have less to worry about, rather than more. So we'll keep her safe and... I guess we'll help her through whatever comes after.

[laminae]

Geez, a lot of thought's going into this, huh? But I guess this world's complicated enough that you can't just go up to a bad guy and stab him and think everything'll be fine.

[He doesn't like it. He misses the simplicity of the post-apocalypse.]

D'ya think we can do that? [Because he's pretty sure helping her through the murder of her parental figure is something he's only going to fail miserably at.]

[droptheious]

It has, but I think it has to. This world definitely won't let you just go and...uh, stab a guy. Not without ending up in prison and I really don't wanna go back to prison.

[That was a really bad time, no thank you. He shifts, putting a hand on Fern's shoulder and giving it a light squeeze.]

I'm sure we can. She'll need us, so we've gotta try, right?

[laminae]

[That makes Fern grow a little somber.] I don't want you to go back to prison, either.

[That's something he's never, ever going to let happen.]

O... okay. Yeah. We gotta at least try for her.

[droptheious]

Glad we're agreed on that one.

[That was a Bad Time and he doesn't want to revisit that particular trauma, no sir. ]

And that's all we can do, is try. So long as we do that, then we know we've done our best, right?

[laminae]

Right. We've got this.

[He doesn't sound particularly convinced, though. They don't got this, they don't got this at all.]